Occasionally, a work or an artist comes along that is so influential, so inescapable that anything that comes after can’t help but reference it, intentionally or not. Think about how, after The Matrix, every ad on TV seemed to use that same timeslice technique. Or how, after the Strokes, the world drowned in a surfeit [...]

Tourist boards have a pretty cool job: they have to make their destination look so good you’ll instantly book a holiday there. Early attempts were simple, beautiful poster images, that are still highly prized. The recipe seemed too easy to mess up: get a creative agency in to use their best artists and typesetters to [...]

Last Monday saw what must have been the highest profile action sports’ (or ‘street sports’, as it was referred to throughout the programme) TV slot ever, with the 90 minute documentary Concrete Circus on Channel 4. Director Mike Christie previously directed Jump London, which followed a couple of freerunners around London, back in 2003. I [...]

A series of three videos hit the internet this week, and became the most watched travel virals since the “Where the Hell is Matt” film – which is up to 16-million hits on YouTube. Remember him? The dancing dude who filmed himself juggling on the spot in various locations around the world? The crucial difference [...]

This has nothing to do with action sports (or adventure travel), but Werner Herzog’s new documentary about the lost cave paintings of Chauvet in France sounds amazing. Discovered in 1994, Chauvet contains the earliest known cave paintings – hundreds of artworks dating from around 32,000 years ago. This site is so fragile that tourist are [...]

The new Art of Flight trailer doesn’t mess about. The film looks like its going to be great. But I think I’m suffering from a surfeit of slow motion, an excess of everything being ridiculously slooooowed-down and lovingly rendered in super soporific HD (TM). This seems to be everywhere in most sport coverage at the [...]